Kim Jee-woon Quotes
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
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I still work weekends because I like it; I enjoy it. I just don't care.
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The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.
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As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
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As a kid, I had to be funny.
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She reinvents herself from album to album. I reinvent myself week to week. I get quite bored with things and I don't want to let down my fans.
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As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
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Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
